"A huge dataset from popular BitTorrent search engines The Pirate Bay and Mininova showed that antipiracy agencies managed to upload an amazing 30 percent of all files in the study group (which comprised 55,000 top files shared by 35 million IP addresses). And these files weren't simply ignored by users; even taking the countermeasures deployed by search sites and their users into account, fake files made up 25 percent of actual user downloads."

"Windows Phone 7 is available in many different countries across the world, but where you live depends on how much of the experience you are able to get. The 3 major features on the Windows Phone revolve around availability of online services and they are the Zune Marketplace, Xbox Live and Bing Local search. Microsoft has not made each of these 3 services available in every country that they are launching Windows Phone in and therefore have created a mess of what services are available on the phone in each country (with some countries even having partial access to some services)." Lots of gaps.

Tunisian ISPs scraped all customers' Facebook login details and began handing them over to Ben Ali's authorities, prompting Facebook to implement two quick-fix security measure, according to the Atlantic. If you stayed persistently logged in, you were safe – but if you logged in and out again your details were compromised.

"Today we are building on this work, and that of others, by allowing you to permanently opt out of ad tracking from all companies that offer opt-outs through the industry self-regulation programs. Keep in mind that once you install the Keep My Opt-Outs extension, your experience of online ads may change: You may see the same ads repeatedly on particular websites, or see ads that are less relevant to you."

Ex-Nokia man Tomi Ahonen tries to figure out how many iOS devices are actually being used, after Apple said 160m have been sold: "The number of 160 million is misleading, because Apple (of course) reports only their cumulative shipments, not the installed base, which is a smaller number. Similarly we could list Nokia as having shipped over 3 Billion phones haha, while their active user base is only about 1.3 Billion. We can safely assume all iPads are still in use but not all iPod Touch devices and certainly not all iPhones. I use the best info I can find, and my current model shows iPhone active installed base at 68 million, iPod Touch devices at 44 million and obviously all iPads in use ie 15 milllion. That gives the iOS family an active installed base of about 127 million (not 160 million)."